There are only two kinds of books that are truly loved - those pristine and undamaged, and those which look like they've been through the apocalypse
You don't memorize the page number, you just sort of remember where you are and find it
Ok Satan
Chaotic Evil would be ripping out every page you've read.
Hey Satan, nice to hear from you! Welcome to the chat!
I'm lawful evil. But I think they mixed up neutral evil and chaotic evil.
Me too, and this is the only alignment chart where I’m lawful and I don’t like it.
Just a reminder that you shouldn't put plants in your book – seriously, that can ruin the paper.
You're right, plant material is going to decompose if there is any trace of humidity in the air and there goes your page... I just stick a thin slice of smoked ham in there
You can laminate leafs if you really want to keep having that fall theme going
I'm all over the board.
The only ones I haven't done (that i can recall) are "neutral good" and "chaotic neutral"
i do have a vague memory of pressed flower bookmarks when i was a youngster, probably was something my mom had.
Chaotic war-crime: dog-ear where you make the fold exactly big enough so it points to the line you left off on.
Yes I did this sometimes as a kid and I still feel bad for the librarians who had to see the devastation I wrought.
Tear the page you're on out and keep it in your pocket to look back to when you need to start again and you can find the page # on the torn out page. /S
Tear each page out as you read them. You'll always open the book to the page you're on
Calm down, Satan
Burning the page you just finished reading so you can read the next page, while standing there in a dark labyrinth ~~where a minotaur is lurking~~.
I'm not represented here. My two go-to's are powering through to the next chapter so I don't have to remember the page number, even though it's way too late, or using whatever random shit I can find to wedge into the book. Most recently it was a can of bullets.
ebook is the only way to guarantee I can read the book. page material and gloss, layout, spacing, kerning, etc. can all combine in various ways to make me inexplicably unable to read or have a really hard time reading where I have to focus really hard on each letter rather than each sentence. Oled has made is possible for me to read large bodies of text on phones but for full books I always go for the eink.
Book Darts are the way. The only way. (That's a "sentence pointer" made out of copper. It's archival quality, so it won't damage your book, even if you leave it there for a very long time.)
Chaotic evil here. Books exist to be read, anything you do to aid that endeavor is justifiable
I read books to read what's inside them, not to save them forever as objects. So chaotic evil it is. Unless there is a receipt handy.
I have used squares of toilet paper in the past. But if I own the book, I'm as like to use the dog ear as I am to find a piece of scrap paper
I was in the memorizing the page number gang, but then I had to go on valprolates.
I fold dog ears everywhere, in variable sizes. The bigger the dog ear, the more important the passage.
Where does Pokemon cards land
Chaotic Good, or I'm just listening to an audio book.
Chaotic good. I have bookmarks, I just forget to use them.
I have a very old book (published in 1794) that has leaves, spiders, some writing, as well as fire and water damage. Not worth anything in the condition it's in, but it's mine and I love it. I've always wanted to know why there were spiders in it, but I'm thankful it's not bound in human leather.
Save for a few I bought second hand, and the first book I ever owned (I managed to have it signed by the author 20 years later) the rest of my books look like they are fresh off a bookstore shelf.
Guess I'm chaotic good. Library gives a receipt for checked out books and even puts it in the book, so I just use that.
I use the dust jacket flap.
I throw dust jackets away immediately, because I think they're an abomination and books look and feel better without them. And then I dog-ear the pages because it gives them character.
I must be extra chaotic extra evil.
Fuck me I hate those things. Straight to the trash.
I’d love to do this clearly easier method except that dust jackets are the devil. One, they ALWAYS get ruined, ALWAYS. Two, they’re weirdly loud if you read in bed & your partner is trying to sleep. Three they sure don’t keep dust off if you store books on a shelf standing up
Today I learned I'm neutral evil.
As with tradition, chaotic good.
behold. LEAF
Okay, and where is throwing the book aside and remembering the page, and when you inevitably forget where you were, just starting from the last place you vaguely remember?
I'm re-reading Eye of the World for the first time in about 15 year and see both CG and CE going on in spades...
Where does using the flyleaf as a bookmark fall on the scale of evil?
Post-modern-apocalypse dnd Cleric with a "Christianity for Dummies" full of receipts
I have done it all except leaving it face down
I used an eraser to keep track of it, had a bookmark that I used, and I actually used a pencil to keep track of where the sentence was, and don't even ask me about Adam Smith's wealth of nations where I quite literally did math on the pages with the charts and scribbled page numbers to keep track of shit
Ugh, I feel unrepresented. I sort of remember where I was, read a bit to see if I recognize it, and then skip a little forward or backwards depending. I have definitely skipped entire chapters before because the style/sentences sounded like what I remember.
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